Killing Lincoln: BYU @ Nebraska

[TripletDaddy]

This quote was quickly followed by KVN coming out of nowhere and sacking Taysom.

KVN can't sack anyone since he is injured all the time.

[SCcoug]

The twitter pile on from this Lincoln sports talk tweet is pretty good.

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[Commando]

Oh geez. What an idiot. Hell hath no fury like the BYU fanbase spurned on Twitter.

[byu71]

Oh geez. What an idiot. Hell hath no fury like the BYU fanbase spurned on Twitter.

One of my co-workers here is an avid Oklahoma fan. He want us in the Big12. He called our bond desk one time and the bond trader asked if he was mormon. The answer was no. He then asked a very curious question, is it true you can walk up and punch a mormon in the face and he will do nothing in response?

My co-worker told him not to try that as he would be liable to have the shit kicked out of him with no follow up apology.

Quite frankly, I have no problem with the so called thug comments.

[TripletDaddy]

Game Preview is UP

http://byucougars.com/m-football/byu...eason-nebraska

http://byucougars.com/files/nebraskanotes.byu_.pdf

http://byucougars.com/files/byu_at_nebraska_notes_0.pdf

BIG WINNERSBoth BYU and Nebraska are amongst the top in college football when it comes to total wins in the last 40 seasons. Nebraska ranks No. 1 since 1975 with 389 wins and BYU is No. 5 at 354.
SEASON OPENERS
The Cougars are 56-32-2 in season openers since 1922. Opening in true road games, BYU has gone 22-20-1 on the road. Under Mendenhall, the Cougars are 2-2 playing their opener in someone else’s house.
MENDENHALL IN SEASON OPENERS
BYU opens the 2015 season against a current Power 5 team for the ninth time in 11 years under Mendenhall. The Cougars have matched up against Boston College, Arizona, Oklahoma, Washington, Ole Miss, Washington State and Virginia. BYU is 5-3 in openers against Power 5 teams under Mendenhall and 7-3 overall in openers.
BYU vs. BIG TEN
BYU has played six teams from the current Big Ten in its history. The team has gone 3-7-1 in those games, with just three of them coming in the regular season and not in a bowl matchup. BYU has never played the Cornhuskers.
UNFAMILIAR FAMILIARITY

Despite this being the first meeting between BYU and Nebraska, the two head coaches are familiar with each other. Though they didn’t work together, both spent significant time as coaches at Oregon State. The two have faced off as head coaches three times. BYU holds a 2-1 advantage over Riley while at OSU. The Cougars topped the Beavers 44-20 in the 2009 Las Vegas Bowl and again in 2011 in Corvallis 38-28. OSU won the last meeting 42-24 in Provo in 2012.

[byu71]

One of my co-workers here is an avid Oklahoma fan. He want us in the Big12. He called our bond desk one time and the bond trader asked if he was mormon. The answer was no. He then asked a very curious question, is it true you can walk up and punch a mormon in the face and he will do nothing in response?

My co-worker told him not to try that as he would be liable to have the shit kicked out of him with no follow up apology.

Quite frankly, I have no problem with the so called thug comments.

Also LOL to anyone saying Memphis suspended players and BYU didn't. Memphis is opening at home with Missouri St.

[TripletDaddy]

Omaha station breaks it down

http://www.ketv.com/sports/huskers-e...t-byu/34806892

BYU tied for sixth last season in most penalties accrued (110), racking up 398 more penalty yards than Nebraska (tied for 63rd in most penalties). Last season, which was the second consecutive that the Cougars finished in the top 10 nationally in penalties, the team managed to amass more than 20 yards on average in penalties (81 compared to 60.2) than their opponents.
Nebraska, on the other hand, hasn't finished higher than 30th since 2010 (when they finished second) in total penalties.

On the flip side, neither program was deft at controlling the ball: Nebraska gave away the ball 25 times last season (No. 92 in the country) and BYU lost the ball 27 times (No. 109 in the country). Both finished with negative turnover margins and although Nebraska's figures should be heightened on account of the more difficult schedule they played, each will be looking to be less careless in 2015.

[Paperback Writer]

Any BYU fan getting trashed about thuggery from a Nebraska fan need only mentioned two letters: LP. If one is unfortunate enough to be sentenced to a prison term in California Kern Valley, one should hope that he is not cellmates with LP.

And then there's this BYU angle...
Guess who failed to pick up a blocking assignment on a blitzing Aeneas Williams?

[TripletDaddy]

Any BYU fan getting trashed about thuggery from a Nebraska fan need only mentioned two letters: LP. If one is unfortunate enough to be sentenced to a prison term in California Kern Valley, one should hope that he is not cellmates with LP.

And then there's this BYU angle...
Guess who failed to pick up a blocking assignment on a blitzing Aeneas Williams?

i immediately did that. the good thing is that there are others from which to choose, as well.

[TripletDaddy]

Scout compares: Where did the starters rate coming out of high school?

http://www.scout.com/college/nebrask...ebraska-vs-byu

Interestingly enough the disparity between average star ranking is pretty slim.

[TripletDaddy]

Riley wins fans, now can he win games?

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/spo...e32991666.html

Bring it on, Riley says.

Riley, with that nice guy persona that plays well in these parts, has done and said all the right things since he was hired in December. Now Big Red fans want to see if Riley can elevate a program that seemed to hit a ceiling under Bo Pelini.
To do that, Riley must win at least nine games a year. Pelini did that each of his seven seasons but Riley only did that in four of his 14 years at Oregon State. Riley also will be expected, maybe not this year but soon, to put the Huskers in position to win their first conference title since 1999.

[TripletDaddy]

Numbers to Know

https://hailvarsity.com/news/numbers...a-byu/2015/09/

-25 – The average spread for Nebraska in its past nine season openers against FBS opponents, dating back to the Louisiana Tech game in 2006. The BYU game opened at Nebraska -7.5 and, as of Wednesday, was sitting in the 7-point range (up from -6 earlier in the week). That’s the lowest opening-game spread for the Huskers since facing No. 24 Oklahoma State in 2003.

3.41 – Average rushing yards per carry allowed by BYU over the past four seasons combined (2011-14). That ranks ninth nationally. Alabama (2.85) leads the country over that span. Michigan State (3.00) is second. The national average was 4.24. The Huskers haven’t fared so well since joining the Big Ten. Nebraska’s average yards per carry allowed, 4.28, ranked 78th. This is a number that could have a potentially big impact on Saturday as Nebraska’s revamped passing game remains mostly a mystery.

On the other hand…

138 – Passing plays of 10 yards or more allowed by the Cougars in 2014, 115th nationally. As is often the case with teams that are strong against the run, they give up a relatively large amount of big plays in the passing game. It’s the something’s-gotta-give nature of defense. It would be a mild surprise — to me at least — if Nebraska’s defense didn’t offer a similar profile in 2015, but viewing this strictly from a Huskers’ offense perspective, this is an area that merits watching as well. Nebraska showed during fall camp that it could hit on some of these big passing plays playing against its own defense. Doing so against BYU might be imperative.

354 – Number of BYU wins since 1975. That total ranks fifth nationally. Nebraska has the most wins (389) of any team over that span.

4 – Number of times Nebraska and BYU finished 1-2 (in either order) in total offense in the six seasons between 1980 and 1985. While Saturday’s game looks like a great one — particularly for a season opener — on paper, a meeting of Tom Osborne and Lavell Edwards in the early 1980s would’ve been deliriously fun. Both were offensive masterminds gobbling up truckloads of yards in the exact opposite way. Nebraska finished in the top three nationally in rushing every year between 1980 and 1985. The Cougars were a top-five passing team every year over that span. Neither team ranked lower than 16th in the final AP poll during that stretch. Alas, the bowl gods in colorful jackets kept us from ever seeing what would’ve happened. As WAC champs, BYU was locked in to the Holiday Bowl. Nebraska had the power-conference clout, playing three Orange Bowls, one Sugar, one Fiesta and one Sun Bowl during those years.

86.5 – BYU quarterback Taysom Hill’s QBR (explanation here) in a little over five games last season before getting injured. If he’d maintained that rating over the entire season, Hill would’ve ranked third nationally trailing only Heisman-winner Marcus Mariota of Oregon and Ohio State’s J.T. Barrett. Tommy Armstrong Jr.’s QBR for 2014 was 64.3 (46th), up from 60.9 as a part-time starter in 2013. Nebraska’s last eight losses have all come to teams whose quarterback, at year’s end, had a higher QBR than the Huskers’ starter. Over the past two seasons, Nebraska is 5-8 in games where its opponent had a QBR edge.

[byu71]

Omaha station breaks it down

http://www.ketv.com/sports/huskers-e...t-byu/34806892

If you were playing a team that obsesses about their image, to try and get them to be less aggressive wouldn't you be pointing out their penalties, brawls and calling them thugs.

I think to set the tone I would have one of the 3rd stringers get a personal foul on the opening kick off.

[TripletDaddy]

Forget BYU, is Nebraska ready for us?

http://www.sbnation.com/college-foot...e-preview-2015

The Huskers were famous under Tom Osborne for being a power-I/option running team. Under Pelini, they mimicked this to an extent but with a more Oregon-flavored outside zone/spread option approach. Now with Riley, Nebraska is looking to get back to a more smashmouth style, but might not have the OL for it.

[Commando]

From Boney Fuller's season preview: